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  In the heart of the Root base, the st of blood filled the air. The aftermath of the atta Danzo left the base in disarray. The onidable leader now stood with his right Sharingan arm stolen and a makeshift rept hastily attached in its pce.

  "Danzo, this madness has to end. Your as have gooo far," Hiruzen stated. His voice carried the weight of his authority and the disappoi he felt.

  Danzo sneered, his remaining eye bzed with defiance. "You were always too soft, Hiruzen. What the vilge needs is strength, not passion."

  The Hokage's chakra spiked in anger when he heard those words. "How about now? Do you still think I've gone soft?"

  The Root Leader was silent and g his trusted ninjas, who were fighting behind him. 'Hiruzen's Anbu mao kill two more of my men but one of the Anbu o longer battle. Still, the odds of victory are not in my favor. Damn it. If only I had those Sharingan.'

  Shisui Uchiha's eye, his most prized possession being take Danzo with a visible loss in poresence. However, his resolve remained unbroken as he faced his old rival. "If you insist on stoppihen so be it."

  "Enough, Danzo. It's your as that have brought us to this point. There will be no more hiding in the shadows," Hiruzen replied sternly. After everything that had happened i few days, his resolve also became unwavering.

  Without speaking another word Danzo made a seal. The ground rumbled as the massive, elephantine creature with a serperunk and immeusks began to attack.

  "RROOOOORR!"

  Its roar echoed through the underground base, startling many. The Baku's presence was overwhelming, it's very breath drawing in the surroundings with a powerful su force.

  The remaining four Root ninjas moved in to atta jun with Danzo's summon, but Hiruzen's Anbu swiftly intercepted them, engaging in a fierbat. The Anbu ninjas forced the Root to shift the battle and move it away in order to not let Danzo have any backup.

  Swords cshed, and jutsu were exged in a flurry of motion, creating a chaotic backdrop to the main frontatioween the Hokage of the Hidden Leaf and the Leader of the Root.

  "Baku, attack!" Danzo ahe Baku inhaled deeply, creating a powerful vacuum that pulled debris and all loose objects. Even the Anbu and Root ninjas fighting oher side were affected by its power and were slowly dragged towards its maw.

  "Enma, transform!" Hiruzen ordered.

  Enma's body elongated and shifted, turning into a massive, adamaaff that Hiruzen wielded with both hands. With a swift, practiced motion, Hiruzen swung Enma in a wide arc, tering the Baku's su force with sheer strength. The staff extended, smashing into Baku's fad f it to stagger backward.

  Danzo, seizing the moment, unched a barrage of wind-style jutsu. "Wind Style - Vacuum Serial Waves!" A series of sharp, invisible wind bdes shot towards the Hokage.

  Hiruzen twirled Enma, defleg the wind bdes with precise strikes. Suddenly the Hokage sensed a powerful gust of wind ing towards him and turned his head up to see Baku's giant trunk about to sm down on his body.

  Boom! The chamber shook and the ground cracked due to the force of the creature's attack.

  Danzo narrowed his eyes as he knew Hiruzen didn't have time to get away. When his loyal summoning creature moved its rge appendage away, the one eyed Root leader saw a square cage made of Enma's adamantine body that stopped the trunk and protected the kage.

  Danzo's fists tightened as he reized the jutsu. 'The Adamantine prison wall. With Enma's powerful body, even Baku will have trouble breaking through that box.'

  Meanwhile, within the safety of the cage Hiruzen gathered his strength. "Let's go Enma." "Right!" The sed the Enma transformed into his rge staff form and flew into Hiruzen's hand.

  They rushed towards Danzo all the while avoiding attacks ing from their enemy. Hiruzen jumped and ran along the walls of the chamber and was steadily getting closer to his targets.

  "Now Enma." Hiruzen jumped, dodging another wave of wind style attacks and he aimed his staff directly at Baku's right eye. The adamaaff instantly extended and struck the creature's eye making it roar in pain.

  Danzo almost lost bance as the elephantine creature thrashed under him in agony. The root ander made a seal and the nightmare creature began inhaling a rge amount of air again.

  Baku tio attack with incredible force, drawing ihing around it.

  "Hiruzen, we o destroy that summoning creature first. Only then will Danzo be vulnerable." Enma advised and the kage nodded. "I'm aware. He should be in pce right about now."

  Just then from the er of the room Hiruzen's shadow e came rushing in avoiding Danzo's line of sight. It was created by the Hokage during the brief moment he was out of sight of Danzo within the adamantine cage.

  "Fire Style - Dragon Fme Bomb!" He exhaled a rge torrent of fmes, bining it with Baku's su wind.

  The bination of fire and wind created a fiery storm, illuminating the dark chamber with blinding light and intense heat. The fmes roared increasing in immensity and strength, and due to Baku's su, the fmes crashed into the beast's mouth f it to stop its inhation.

  The sed it screamed in pain as its whole body became lit on fire.

  Danzo jumped away from atop his beast before he could be injured but had to dodge a strike from the adamaaff by twisting his body mid air. He was only partially successful as the staff grazed his shoulder wounding him a him crashing into a wall.

  Seizing the moment, Hiruzen's shadow e kept attag the summon. 'I don't know if this creature has any healing abilities or not, but I 't take any ces.'

  A kunai with multiple explosive tags was thrown towards its soft underbelly. Seds ter, explosions echoed around Baku, followed by a violeion of fmes and debris. The force of the bst was tremendous, as the explosive tags detonated uhe creature, amplifying the damage.

  The Baku's massive form vulsed, uo withstand the internal aernal explosions. After a final desperate roar, the creature vanished in a puff of smoke, its summoning jutsu forcibly undone by the damage.

  Seeing his task pleted, Hiruzen's e dispelled itself, giving its creator its remaining chakra.

  Danzo got up and took several deep breaths of air as he gazed at the Hokage. As the smoke cleared he saw Hiruzen standing tall, holding Enma in his staff form.

  The aftermath of the explosion and smoke from the creature vanishing still lingered in the air.

  After Danzo withe destru of his summon he felt a pang of frustration and anger. "Hiruzen...!"

  Hiruzen's eyes were sharp. They were filled with both determination and a touch of sorrow. "It's over, Danzo. No more of your schemes."

  With the Baku defeated, the momentum of the battle had shifted decisively in Hiruzen's favor. The Root ninjas, already on the defensive, were further demoralized by the loss of such a powerful ally but they were not oo stop.

  With Root and Anbu

  As Hiruzen and Danzo cshed with their summoned creatures, the battle between their subordinates raged on in the chaotic backdrop of the Root base.

  Among the batants were two of Hiruzen's Anbu, distinguished by their Hawk and Tiger painted masks, fag off against four of Danzo's Root ninjas. They fought even more ruthlessly, exging injuries for injuries.

  The Root ninjas, trained ih and assassination, moved with lethal efficy. They uhemselves at the Anbu with a flurry of taijutsu strikes, aiming to overwhelm them with speed and precision. The Anbu however, were ners to hand to hand bat.

  The Hawk-masked Anbu deftly dodged a series of rapid punches from one Root ninja. He tered with a swift kick to the side, sending the oppo stumbling. 'With Snake uo fight, we don't have any powerful Genjutsu to slow them down.'

  The Tiger-masked Anbu faced two oppos simultaneously, their movements were fast as they parried and tered. Their ons created tless sparks in the air as they weo head.

  The Root ninjas attempted to overwhelm him with coorditacks, but Tiger was relentless. With a sudden burst of chakra, the Tiger-masked Anbu executed a spinning kick, striking both oppos with enough force to send them skidding back.

  'My greatest strength is taijutsu. Fighting me in that field, even someone like Might Guy would have trouble.'

  Seeing his rades struggling, the remaining fourth Root ninja unleashed a barrage of shuriken, f the Anbu Hawk to leap back. The four Root ninjas quickly regrouped and stood together.

  As they did, one of the Root ninjas kicked by Tiger weaved hand signs and unleashed a Genjutsu.

  The world around Anbu Hawk seemed to and twist, the chamber's walls shifting into grotesque shapes. Hawk momentarily faltered, feeling the effects of the illusion.

  'This is Genjutsu - Devil's Maw. I have to break it.'

  Despite being under a gruesome illusion Hawk kept his calm. Anbu were traio resist such teiques.

  Before the Root ninja could attad nd a killing strike, with a swift hand sign Hawk disrupted his chakra flow and dispelled the Genjutsu, clearing his mind. He immediately retaliated, f hand signs for a ninjutsu.

  "Fire Style - Imperial Lion's fme!" A volley of medium sized fireballs with a lion head shot towards the four Root ninjas, f them to dodge.

  One of them was suddenly caught in ninja wire trapping him ihe lethal fire jutsu quickly ended his life and moved on to the other.

  The sed Root ninja tered with a water teique, "Water Style - Water defense Wall," He spit out just enough water to create a barrier that barely extinguished the fmes.

  In the midst of the elemental csh, the Tiger-masked Anbu vanished, only to reappear behind the water wall.

  "Shadow e Jutsu!" Several es of the Tiger-masked Anbu materialized, eag into a coordiaijutsu assault.

  The three Root ninjas were momentarily caught off guard and scrambled to defend themselves. The real Tiger targeted the weakest link of the group and struck with precise and powerful blows. Seds ter Hawk also rejoihe battle.

  One of the Root ninjas, realizing they were at a disadvantage, quickly formed hand signs and shouted, "Earth Style - Earth Flow Spears!" Spikes of earth shot up from the ground, aiming to impale the Anbu.

  The Hawk-masked Anbu reacted swiftly. He flipped through the air to avoid the spikes and nded in a crouched position. He formed three hand signs and inhaled a rge amount of air.

  "Wind Style - Air on!" A powerful gust of wind blew through the chamber, shattering the earth spikes and knog the Root ninjas off bance.

  Taking advantage of the opening, the Tiger-masked Anbu rushed forward, engaging the three Root ninjas in close bat. His movements were fluid and precise, each strike calcuted to kill rather than disable.

  One Root ninja attempted to draw a kunai, but Tiger swiftly disarmed him and followed up with a devastating elbow strike to the chest.

  The blow sent the masked man staggering back several steps and then suddenly a sword pierced through his chest. "Gha!''

  The remaining two Root ninjas, seeing their rades falling, tried troup. However, Anbu Hawk was relentless. He used his wind chakra to enhance his speed and agility. He darted through the battlefield, trying to nd swift and decisive blows.

  One Root ninja attempted to trap him in a Genjutsu again, but the Hawk-masked Anbu tered with a burst of chakra, instantly breaking free from the illusion aaliating with a precise punch to the jaw. "Not this time."

  The battle reached its climax as the two Anbu ered the remaining two enemies.

  Breathing heavily, the Root ninjas g each other. They realized they were outmatched. The two Anbu ninjas stood before them, ons at the ready, but hesitated to deliver a final blow. Root was also part of the Leaf vilge. They wao give them a ce to surrender.

  "Stand down," Anbu Hawk anded, his voice firm but trolled. "This battle is over. You know you won't win."

  For a moment, it seemed as though the Root ninjas were pting surreheir eyes darted between each other, their faces tense and covered i. The air around the four ninjas was thick with anticipation. The sounds of battle still resonated in the shattered walls of the Root base.

  Suddenly, one of the Root ninja with a grim determination in his eyes, spoke up. "We were traio fight for the sake of the vilge, even if it meant our deaths. Lord Danzo is the only one who save this vilge." He tightened his grip on his kunai, his resolve unyielding. "We won't surrender."

  The Tiger-Anbu looked into the eyes of the roots and internally sighed. 'They're immensely loyal to Danzo to the point of blind worship. It seems there's no use in talking.'

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